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Development Practices

Are Dynamic Items Missing from Your Design Mockups?

Web app style guides always include basic items like error states for forms. Unfortunately, the more dynamic items are often not specified.
Development Practices

Why (and How) Developers Should Care about Design [Video]

Maybe you don't want to pick colors for your application, but you can and you should want to take ownership over the Design of your work.
Atomic Accelerator, Project & Team Management

Atomic’s Curriculum for Teaching Young Developers about Design

Designers and developers each bring an important perspective, and the more we can empathize and collaborate with one another, the more value we can create.
Project & Team Management

Some Design Up Front: Why ‘Sprint Zero’ is Not Enough

Five big drawbacks of the "Sprint Zero" approach to integrating agile designers and developers on a software team.
News & Events

Balanced Team is Coming to Grand Rapids in 2015

Help us create better, stronger, smarter multi-disciplinary teams at the 2015 Balanced Team summit in Grand Rapids.
Business Practices

5 Characteristics of a Thriving Design Culture

Adding a few Nerf guns and trendy posters won't cut it — a company that's truly supportive of design will experience a culture shift from the inside out.
Project & Team Management

Pitfalls of Integrated Design and Development Burn Charts

Integrated design/development backlogs are a great way of coordinating tasks, but integrated burn charts are another story.
UX/Design Practices

Design Saturates Our Software Process

Agile design is infused into all stages of software product development, and developers participate in strategic and tangible design throughout the project.
Development Practices

Designers Are More Valuable than Programmers

Insights as to how developers practice design and an assertion of the diminishing value of the "coder" mindset.
Project & Team Management

Poly-skilled Teams Deliver Products

Poly-skilled co-located teams of generalists are more likely to deliver products on time and efficiently than separate groups of specialized people.
Project & Team Management

The Benefits of Poly-Skilled, Co-Located Project Teams

This year we implemented a new practice: designers, instead of sitting all together in a group, sit co-located with the developers on their project.
Project & Team Management

Designers + Developers = Poly-skilled Teams

A developer can help with with user research, IA or IxD tasks. A designer can contribute HTML and CSS directly into a project.

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